| 11 - 20 of 26 |
Number of results to display per page

Harvard power plant

Description: Harvard University medical area energy plant under construction; will produce electric power via diesel engines. Located on corner of Brookline Avenue and Francis Street near Mission Hill. Men on scaffolding laying bricks. Big buckets of mortar hoisted with crane. Wheelbarrow is lifted to platform. Signs “men working” and “no trespassing.” Giant claw deposits cement in dump truck. Contractors J.E. White, Dorel, Anastasi Brothers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1978

INFANT MORTALITY, MISSION HILL

Description: HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH STARTS PROGRAM TO REDUCE INFANT MORTALITY IN MISSION HILL.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/06/1987

Jon Parker acquitted

Description: Judge Sally Kelly acquits Jon Parker of illegal possession of hypodermic needles, which he distributed to drug addicts on Mission Hill to cut down on the spread of AIDS. Dr. George Lamb.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1990

Jon Parker sets up shop

Description: Jon Parker & AIDS Brigade give out clean needles in Mission Hill. Addict deposits used works, gets kit w/alcohol wipes & condom. Neighborhood residents protest.File of Parker's fight w/Graylan Ellis-Hagler.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/30/1991

Kemp visits Mission Hill

Description: HUD Secretary Jack Kemp visits Mission Hill to see success of private initiative in public housing. Speaking outdoors: Michael Dukakis, Ray Flynn, Edward Kennedy. John Kerry walks with Kemp.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/12/1989

Lawn Street condos

Description: NEIGHBORS UNITE AGAINST DEVELOPMENT OF LAWN STREET CONDOS IN MISSION HILL. TRACTOR BULLDOZER DIGGING UP SITE. Paul Grogan, Ray Flynn, David Scondras, Bruce Bolling. "Back of the Hill"
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/04/1985

Mission Hill healing service

Description: Mission Church in Roxbury holds service to heal Mission Hill community after false accusations in Stuart murder case. Ray Flynn.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1990

Mission Hill housing project

Description: Exteriors of Mission Hill housing project. Trash strewn about. African American children playing in the parking lot and playing basketball. Steve Curwood interviews with residents including Betty Galloway, Dorothy Johnson, and a woman who doesn't want to give her name. They speak about the strike by BHA maintenance workers, and the past and current condition in the public housing, especially the amount of trash piling up. Accumulated rubbish in a vacant apartment and the chutes to the incinerators. Several takes of reporter standup. Exteriors of Exchange Building (53 State Street). Pedestrians.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/01/1977

Mission Hill housing project

Description: Interview with Boston city councilor Ray Flynn about affordable, safe and decent housing. In front of Mission Hill housing project on Smith Street. Interior of apartment renovated by tenant. Interview with Alan Root of Tenants Policy Council on how to use public funds and sweat equity to optimize rehabilitation effort. Looks for improved racial climate through integrating the several cultures and languages predominant in public housing. Calls for better security and lighting so residents can be comfortable in and around their homes. Is dismayed that public housing has been excluded from CDBG entitlements.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/23/1980

Mission Hill public housing

Description: Mission Hill public housing project. Seven-story brick buildings. Children walking through public housing courtyard.Ride through South End passing Columbus Avenue brownstones. Harbor Towers twin high rises; tilt up, sign says “forty floors of luxury living.”
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/26/1977